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Have you ever thought about how weird it is that in this world of streaming

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music, all of this music that we've collected over the years,

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it's actually kind of hard to enjoy it.

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Like it's stuck in one place.

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Like if you had a bunch of vinyl records, but only one record player.

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So today we are diving into a potential solution to that,

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which is essentially setting up your own personal streaming

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service from all your own music.

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Yeah.

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And to do that, we've been looking into this project called Navidrome,

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a software called Navidrome.

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And we found some information on GitHub about this and also just on their

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website to understand how it works and why it might be interesting for you.

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If you want to have more control over your digital music life.

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Absolutely.

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And speaking of digital life, a huge thank you to safe server for

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supporting this deep dive.

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They're really into this kind of stuff.

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Yes.

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They provide hosting for this kind of software.

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So you can take back control of your digital sovereignty.

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Yes.

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If you're interested, you can find out more at safeserver.de.

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So what is this thing, Navidrome?

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What is it all about?

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You can kind of think about it like this.

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You have all of your music files on your computer, right?

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You install this piece of software.

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It's pretty straightforward, even for beginners.

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And it essentially turns that music library into a website that you can

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access from any device with an internet connection.

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So instead of like relying on Spotify or Apple music, you know, YouTube music,

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you're setting up your own version of that.

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Exactly.

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Using your own files.

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It's your own music, your own streaming service, and it's living

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online ready for you whenever you want it.

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And it's free to use.

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Oh, really?

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It's open source.

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So there's like a whole community of people who are constantly

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working on this thing, making it better.

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So it's like community driven, giving you more freedom with your music.

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So that means like, I could listen on my phone or my laptop.

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I can even listen on a smart speaker if it has a web browser.

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Pretty much anything with a web browser.

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So it's really accessible from anywhere.

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Exactly.

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Goes to traveling at a friend's place, whatever your music's right there.

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It's always there for you.

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I like that.

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I like that a lot.

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And all of your listening habits stay with you.

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They're not on some big corporations server, but for people who might be

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listening, who aren't super techie, the idea of setting up a server might

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sound a little bit daunting.

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Is this something that is actually relatively easy to get started with?

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It is.

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It is.

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One of the really cool things about Navidrome is it's very lightweight and fast.

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It's built using these modern computer languages that are known for being efficient.

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It runs really smoothly.

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And they even say on the website that you can run it on a Raspberry Pi.

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Oh, wow.

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Which is like this tiny little computer that's very inexpensive.

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So you don't need a powerful setup or anything like that.

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What about people like me who've been collecting music for decades?

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Can it handle a huge library?

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It can.

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It can.

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They say that they've tested it with libraries as large as 900,000 songs in

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various formats, including high quality ones.

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So you probably won't run into any limitations there.

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That's good to know.

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Now when we're streaming music, especially in our phones, data usage can be a big

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concern.

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Does Navidrome do anything to manage that?

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Yeah, they have this feature called transcoding on the fly.

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And so what that means is if you're on a slow internet connection where you want

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to save your mobile data, it can actually shrink down the size of the

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music file as it's sending it to your device.

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Which means you'll use less data and the music will start playing faster.

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So you can control that balance between sound quality and data.

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You can choose how much you want to shrink it down.

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Very cool.

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Now you mentioned some techie terms like react JS and material UI.

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Can you break those down for us a little bit?

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So essentially what that means is the website that you use to access your music.

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It's probably going to look modern.

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It's going to be easy to use.

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It's going to work well on different devices, whether it's a big computer

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screen or a smaller phone screen.

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So it's designed to just be really easy to use.

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And yeah, it should be a really smooth experience.

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A lot of people have favorite apps that they use already for listening to music.

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Would they have to switch to a completely new app?

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That's a good question.

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To listen to their Navidrome library.

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That's where this compatibility with something called the subsonic API comes in.

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So subsonic is basically like a standard way for music servers and apps to talk

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to each other and Navidrome is designed to work with a bunch of existing music

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apps that already use subsonic.

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So things like mad sonic or air sonic.

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So you might already have an app that you love that will connect to

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your Navidrome server.

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That makes it much easier.

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Okay. Now like any software you want to know that it's being taken care of.

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So tell me a little bit about the development of Navidrome.

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So it seems like from both the GitHub page and the website, they're very

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actively working on this, so you can expect updates, new features, the bug

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fixes, if anything comes up, they have a whole history of many releases.

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So it's an active project.

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So it's not going to be left to.

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It's not going to be abandoned.

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Gather dust.

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That's reassuring.

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So I spent a lot of time, you know, organizing my music library, making

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sure all the metadata is right.

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Does Navidrome use that?

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Navidrome will read and use all of that information that's in your music files.

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So all that effort you put in is not wasted.

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And it even handles things like compilation albums, you know, where you

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have different artists on the same album or multi-disc sets.

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It treats those correctly as one unit.

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Well, that's good.

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That's a relief.

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What if you have multiple people in a household who want to use it?

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So Navidrome does support multiple users so everybody can have their own separate

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account with their own playlist, listening history, all that stuff.

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So it's perfect for families or shared living spaces.

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Everyone has their own personalized experience.

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We talked earlier about how it uses very few computer resources.

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What's the benefit of that?

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And it's not going to slow down or cause problems.

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of the processing power and make everything else run slowly.

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So it's very efficient.

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And it doesn't matter what computer I'm using.

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It works across different operating systems, Mac, Windows, Linux, and they also

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provide these things called Docker images, which makes it even easier to set up.

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And of course it runs great on a Raspberry Pi.

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So we've got it all set up.

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How do we keep our library up to date?

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So luckily you don't have to do that manually.

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Navidroom can watch your music folders and anytime you add new music or change

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information about your existing music, it's going to detect that and update

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the library automatically.

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So how about the look and feel of the app?

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So it's a web interface and they say that it's modern.

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It's responsive, which means it adapts to whatever screen size you're using and

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you can customize it with different themes.

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That's good.

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What about different language options?

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They have a bunch of different languages that it's been translated into.

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So there is a strong community behind it.

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An international community.

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So if somebody wants to check this out, where should they go?

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So the best place to start is their website, which is navadrome.org.

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And there you'll find all the documentation guides on how to

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install it on different systems.

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And then they also have a GitHub page, which is github.com

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slash navadrome slash navadrome.

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So I also noticed they have a live demo.

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You can actually try it out.

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You can get a feel for how it works.

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Without having to install anything.

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And for people who don't want to install and manage it themselves.

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There's also a cloud hosting option.

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There's a service called Pika pods that offers hosting specifically for navadrome.

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What about people who want to contribute?

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So because it's open source, you can contribute if you want to.

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They have information on the website and the GitHub page on how to get involved.

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And they also have communities on Reddit and discord where people are discussing it.

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So it seems like Navadrome is a really cool way to take control of your music.

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It's like having your own personalized streaming service.

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Exactly.

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That's always there whenever you need it.

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And a huge thank you again to safe server for supporting this and for making

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software like this accessible.

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If you want to learn more about them, it's safe server dot D E E.

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So I want you to think about your music library.

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What would it be like to really, truly own and manage how you listen to it and

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have it set up perfectly for all your different devices and your own listening

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habits?

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It's pretty powerful when you think about it.

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It is.

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What new possibilities does that open up for you and your music?